Ugandans spend Labour Day unconsciously as simply another public holiday. Labour Day has a long treacherous history whose commemoration requires deeper and purposive reflections on understanding labour. The debate on labour has spanned generations, and…
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A fortnight ago, I participated in the ‘‘Gulu Go Green Marathon’’, an initiative by the nonprofit, CEED. Now in its second year, the run is meant…
Mr. Fred Muwema’s litigation brought against the mysterious person called Tom Voltaire Okwalinga (TVO), in Ireland, is an interesting ghost chase. The case, many of you…
By now you should know that Africa is one dictator less. Yahya Jammeh, after two decades atop tiny Gambia is no more. The eccentric tyrant is off…
Dear Acholi Leaders; my leaders, I am writing for the very first time to you. Given the gravity of the subject, I humbly beg that you…
We learnt long ago that Political Parties are formed to vie for power and capture it. Once in power, the party must fight as much it…
In the last couple of weeks, Uganda’s media space has been awash with controversies and scandals, one after the other. The storm created by the powerful…
In Adam Hochschild’s ‘‘King Leopold’s Ghost,’’ there is a chapter titled ‘‘Journalists won’t give you receipts.’’ King Leopold II was the shrewd, deceptive and megalomaniac King…
When Ugandans woke up on the morning of November 26, 2016, all they heard, read and saw in the news were dead bodies, a burnt palace,…
By David Martin Aliker Sunday, November 20th, 2016 marked a week since Akena Watmon, a child rights specialist was brutally murdered in cold blood. The President…